2011 Income tax forms will now include a line for taxpayers to pay their use taxes. It is estimated that approximately $350 million dollars per year of use tax on internet purchases does not get reported or paid. The Pennsylvania government has included a chart which estimates use tax owed based on household income, in [...]Read Full Article →

Hosting a summer barbecue in Maryland is about to get a little more expensive if beer is on the menu. Effective July 1 the sales tax rate on alcoholic beverages in Maryland will increase to 9%. The higher rate will replace the 6% sales tax rate that will still apply to sales of other types [...]Read Full Article →

On Thursday April 14th New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed S2130 into law. The legislation, effective 4/8/2011, revises the imposition of the sales and use tax on digital property, provides relief from liability due to certain tax rate changes, and makes various other technical changes and clarifications to the tax to maintain compliance [...]Read Full Article →

On March 29th legislation was introduced in the Alabama House that would require remote sellers who do not collect to tax to notify purchasers of their use tax obligations at the time of purchase as well send a yearly reminder statement to those purchasers. Notification Requirement HB365 would require that the following notification be given [...]Read Full Article →

The proposed budget for North Carolina includes making the temporary state tax increase permanent. In addition, 10,000 state jobs would be eliminated and the corporate income tax rate is to be significantly lowered. In exchange for making the sales tax increase permanent, it would be lowered to 0.75 percent (it is currently a 1 percent [...]Read Full Article →

A bill has been introduced in the Hawaii House that would create a holiday from the General Excise Tax on school supplies costing less than $15 per item, computers, computer software, and computer supplies of less than $1,500 per purchase, clothes of less than $100 per item and books of less than $50 per item. [...]Read Full Article →